Worldwide Global Christmas Traditions

Worldwide Global Christmas Traditions

It’s not about the Christmas presents but rather about the Christmas Memories. An important thing to remember as many scurrying around trying to find last minute gifts. Holiday traditions provide treasured memories. Today many of us are traveling to be with loved ones to participate in some of those traditions. I thought I’d share some of the interesting world Christmas traditions.

Due to an effective 1974 marketing campaign in Japan, many Japanese families eat Kentucky Fried Chicken for Christmas eve dinner. In fact, reservations need to be made nearly two months in advance if you want to dine in at the KFC restaurant.

In the Ukraine, instead of ornaments and tinsel, Ukrainian Christmas trees are decorated with artificial spiders and cobwebs.

For those who are mourning a loved one, in Finland families usually visit they graves of their ancestors and relatives on Christmas Eve to light candles in memory of the deceased.

Here is one for my farming friends might consider, a Slovakia Christmas eve dinner tradition is that the most senior man of the house takes a spoonful of loksa pudding — traditional Christmas dish made out of bread, poppyseed filling and water — and throws the spoonful at the ceiling. The more that sticks — the richer the crop will be there following harvest.

Whatever your traditions are for this season, I wish you and those you love a Very Merry Christmas.
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